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Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 253
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1974
Language
English
Description
A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself.
Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
"Follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a besat of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly." -- Container.
67) Crazed fruit
Series
Criterion collection volume 295
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. A portrayal of post-war sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged.
Series
Criterion collection volume 286
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Baron Fernanco Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way, his wife Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he plans tu lure his wife into the arms of another and then murder her to save his honor.
69) F for fake
Series
Criterion collection volume 288
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Trickery, Deceit, Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
70) Heaven can wait
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A recently deceased man must tell his life story to the devil before being admitted into hell.
71) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
75) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 274
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
77) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
78) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
日本語
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora- and trenchcoat-wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 310
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
日本語
Description
"Isaburo, a renowned swordsman, ... is the essence of samurai loyalty until his overlord demands the return of a former mistress, Isaburo's beloved daughter-in-law. The injustice to his family forces Isaburo to take a heroic stand for individual freedom and moves him towards a revolt he can never win."--Container.
Special features: Excerpt from a 1993 interview with the director, original theatrical trailer, new English subtitle translation, essay...
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